From Greenland's Icy Mountains
- Authors
- Reginald Heber
- Year
- 1819
- Example Text
- From Greenland's icy mountains...
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- Scripture References
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- Deuteronomy 29:17
- Psalm 2; 72:17; 96:5
- Matthew 28:19-20
- Luke 3:6
- Acts 1:8; 16:9
- Revelation 5:6; 9:20
- Lyrics
1 From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand;
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand:
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
2 Can men, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Can they to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation
Has learned Messiah's Name.
3 Waft, waft, ye winds, His story;
And you, ye waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole:
Till o'er our ransomed nature
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
AMEN.
Source:The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #382
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